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AN EARLY 20th-CENTURY SCHOOL'S TELLURIUM
the 6.5cm. diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores copied from Georg Matthus Seutter (1678-1757) with cartouche in the southern Pacific reading GLOBUS TERRESTRIS juxta recentifsimas obfervation et navigationes peritiffimor: Geograph accuratifsime delineati, cura et fumtibus MATTH. SEUTTERI Chalcogr: Auguft., the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the eclipitic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans with windroses, the Antarctic with projected coastline, eastern Australia unshown, northern Australia joined to New Guinea, only the eastern coast of New Zealand shown, the continents strikingly coloured red, green and yellow and finely detailed with rivers, mountains, towns and cities, the northern Pacific with projected coastline and marked SEPTENTRIONALIS (gores poorly aligned in places, some signs of wear and repair), with cream-painted moonball supported on a wire arm, the moulded steel arm to 12.5cm. diameter brass sunball on circular steel plinth base, the duodecahedral base plate with (copied) Zodiac circle graduated in degrees and days with pictures for the houses of the Zodiac
62cm. long (maximum)
the 6.5cm. diameter terrestrial globe made up of twelve chromolithographed gores copied from Georg Matthus Seutter (1678-1757) with cartouche in the southern Pacific reading GLOBUS TERRESTRIS juxta recentifsimas obfervation et navigationes peritiffimor: Geograph accuratifsime delineati, cura et fumtibus MATTH. SEUTTERI Chalcogr: Auguft., the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, the eclipitic graduated in days of the houses of the Zodiac with symbols, the oceans with windroses, the Antarctic with projected coastline, eastern Australia unshown, northern Australia joined to New Guinea, only the eastern coast of New Zealand shown, the continents strikingly coloured red, green and yellow and finely detailed with rivers, mountains, towns and cities, the northern Pacific with projected coastline and marked SEPTENTRIONALIS (gores poorly aligned in places, some signs of wear and repair), with cream-painted moonball supported on a wire arm, the moulded steel arm to 12.5cm. diameter brass sunball on circular steel plinth base, the duodecahedral base plate with (copied) Zodiac circle graduated in degrees and days with pictures for the houses of the Zodiac
62cm. long (maximum)